I just returned from a multiple city trip to look at colleges for my daughter. Though we ate fabulous restaurant meals, I found myself longing for fresh, simple food centered on the seasonal produce I find here in the Bay Area. One of the college students we ate with was a California girl living in…
Category: Vegetables
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are powerfully nutritious, like all of their cabbage kin. They are a strong flavored green, and when properly prepared are uniquely nutty and flavorful. They are at their peak of flavor when harvested after a frost, or during the cool days of Fall. There are many ways to coax the best from these…
Butternut Squash Steak with Spicy Pepitas Pesto
Squash are reigning supreme at my local market, and one of my very favorites is the smooooth, sweet, easy on the taste-buds butternut squash. I found a big, blocky hulk of a butternut squash at my market, and decided it deserved to be treated right. Butternut squash flesh is firm, velvety, and subtly sweet. I…
Quinoa and Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash
The first Fall squash just arrived in my CSA veggie box — rich flavored, delicious acorn squash. Yeah! Each season has its culinary stars, and squash are definitely the stars of Fall. Another autumnal joy is the new crop of apples in my local market. I combined sweet-tart apples with protein packed quinoa and walnuts…
Summer Quinoa Saute
Quinoa is a protein-packed, easy to make grain with a rich nutty flavor. Here’s a quick saute that pairs quinoa with a couple items playing starring roles in my CSA box this season: summer squash, tomato, and bell pepper. In this one dish meal I spice things up with jalapeno and preserved lime. Feel free…
Carrots with Green Coriander
The humble carrot – sweet, aromatic, and crunchy – is a kitchen workhorse. In the past couple of years my fondness for carrots has grown because of the amazing flavor in the freshly harvested beauties from my Fully Belly Farm CSA box. My simple recipe using carrots also uses another member of the carrot family…
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